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A Creative Tension: Anthropocentrism and the Human-Nonhuman Boundary in Christian Europe, 1400-1700
A Creative Tension: Anthropocentrism and the Human-Nonhuman Boundary in Christian Europe, 1400-1700
상세정보
- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211151153
- ISBN
- 9798382303369
- DDC
- 200
- 서명/저자
- A Creative Tension: Anthropocentrism and the Human-Nonhuman Boundary in Christian Europe, 1400-1700
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Columbia University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 325 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-10, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Cameron, Euan K.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약This dissertation seeks to understand the idea of a boundary between humans and non-human creatures in the early modern era. The idea of a boundary between people and non-people, while implicit among most sixteenth-century theologians, is still an important feature of early modern history. However, the boundary, while rhetorically very important and static, did not match with the reality of the boundary in theology and culture as fluid. Theologians argued at length that humanity, being made in the "image of God," retained a fundamental difference from animals and other nonhuman creatures, in which that boundary could not be crossed. However, they also allowed for animals to possess positive traits and even moral and legal culpability. They also accepted creatures that challenged the boundary, whether monsters (including exotic creatures and misbirths) or humans who were not thought to possess all of the constituent characteristics of the "image of God," such as those with mental or cognitive deficiencies. Thus, they struggled to reconcile the experiential reality of a fluid boundary with the theological conviction of an anthropocentric hierarchy of creation. This dissertation will address the inherent tension between these two views and assess the ways in which theological and cultural figures helped to resolve the tension. Using early modern commentaries on Genesis, we will first examine the rhetorical insistence on a firm boundary articulated by figures both mainstream and heterodox. Then, we will examine the popular perception of a fluid boundary, in which nonhuman creatures could be addressed and understood morally in bestiaries, saints' lives, and trial records. Finally, we will examine how proto-scientific thinkers of the sixteenth century, like Conrad Gessner, Andreas Vesalius, Johann Weyer, and Ambroise Pare, actively challenged existing authorities and helped to resolve the tension to a state in which humans and nonhuman creatures were different, yet both existed within the broader sphere of nature. By the end of the sixteenth century, violations of the boundary between people and non-people come to be rejected more for their natural than theological implications.
- 일반주제명
- Religion
- 일반주제명
- History
- 일반주제명
- Theology
- 일반주제명
- Medieval history
- 키워드
- Medieval period
- 키워드
- Popular religion
- 키워드
- Reformation
- 기타저자
- Columbia University Religion
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-10A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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